Franz Liszt - Liebestraum No. 3 Difficulty Scaling

[owenchan]

Hello all!

I'm a fairly advanced pianist (to my knowledge, at least ), and I want a new piece to learn. I'm just finishing up my recent pieces, the first movement of the Pathetique Sonata and Schubert's Impromptu Op. 90 No 2. I plan on continuing the Pathetique Sonata to learn all three movements, but I was thinking I could take up Liszt's Liebestraum as a new piece to learn. I'm wondering, on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being Tchaik Piano Concerto #1) how challenging this piece would be. I say Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 is a scalar rating of 10 because it's my goal to learn that before I kick the bucket.

Any further advice or suggestions as to which piece I could play at my current level are much appreciated!

[mjames]

An advanced pianist would be able to figure that out on his own by assessing his own strengths and weaknesses.

[owenchan]

An advanced pianist would be able to figure that out on his own by assessing his own strengths and weaknesses.

I meant as in it's relative difficulty compared to the song I mentioned above, the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1. I am well aware of how difficult it is in my own perspective, but in its perspective compared to the piano concerto.

I'm sorry if I did not make that clear.

[chopinlover01]

Considering the other pieces you're playing, the only difficult spots for you would probably be the cadenzas. The first one is D flat minor thirds resolving into an E flat 7 chord.
The second is starting from a C7, and going down chromatically by major thirds in the right hand and minor thirds in the left (which makes dominant seventh chords).
Hopefully that helped, message me if you'd like some advice.
I actually need to update my sig, my teacher assigned it to me last week for a recital at the end of May XD

[outin]

the song I mentioned above, the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1.

I don't think very highly of the said concerto, but I have hears it several times and as the name suggests it's a work for orchestra and piano, not a song...